Hello Helen,

i'm proud that i can give you some information back, for all the help from
you .... ;-)

Okay, how to run embedded from CD:

First:

I'm using Firebird RC 7, Visual Basic 6 SP 5 for www.adrimdg.de
For my user i made a Single Version with embedded and an intranet version
with Firebird Server ... works fine..

On my website i have a version for testing, but that wasn't my target,
because the user have to install.

Now i followed the thread and here is my solution (tested now under Windows
NT SP 4 and Windows 2k SP 3)

1:
changed the database with gfix -mode read_only -user sysdba -password
YourPassword to readonly

2:
Changed the connection string in Visual Basic to mode read_only too.

3:
Used only Select Statements, no generators or sp in my program/database

4:
Copy all the stuff on a CD and it works

Ciao Thomas

(Come from Germany, that's the reason for bad english, sorry)



-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
Von: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2004 12:54
An: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Betreff: Re: [firebird-support] Re: how to run embedded firebird in a CD
in readonly mode.


At 11:39 AM 11/02/2004 +0000, robert_hollay wrote:

>But is it possible to make a "true" read only embedded server
>installation on a CD? I mean, all the stuff on one CD (not only
>the database, but the server too).
>Can security.fdb be read only?

When it's used, the security.fdb can't be read-only - but the Windows
Embedded Server doesn't use it.

But I don't think you could make a whole embedded app that runs off a CD,
because the OS has to put an exclusive lock on the database file. I think
you'd have to have the application + client as an installable app on the
host machine, with a routine to create the database alias to point to the
location of the database on the CD-Rom drive.

I set up an embedded server app + read-only database on flash drive. That
worked fine, because it's a read-write device, so no problem with the
exclusive lock.

/heLen

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
>wrote:
> > At 06:52 AM 11/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > You actually have to make it a read-only database *before* you copy
>it to
> > the CD.
> > Either
> > restore it from a backup with the -mode read_only switch
> >
> > or
> > use gfix:
> >
> > gfix -mode read_only /path/to/your/database
> >
> > heLen
> > >
>
>
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>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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